Mystery

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An anonymous cash donor who touched off a treasure hunt across San Francisco by hiding envelopes full of bills in unlikely places and providing clues via Twitter has moved operations to Los Angeles, sparking a frenzy with the first money drop. The unknown donor made the deposit near a fountain in Griffith Park on Wednesday night, and local television showed throngs of people searching frantically for the hidden loot. "What was originally meant to be a pay-it-forward scavenger hunt for San Francisco, has become much bigger than San Francisco and more than a scavenger hunt," the mystery benefactor said in a message posted on his Twitter account, @HiddenCash.

By Shelby Sebens PORTLAND Ore. (Reuters) - Six cotton-top tamarin monkeys died unexpectedly soon after their arrival at the Oregon Zoo, following the death of an orangutan that led to the firing of the zoo's director, officials said on Friday. They were in a group of nine of the squirrel-like primates that arrived at the zoo on May 22 and were placed in quarantine at its veterinarian center, which is routine procedure, officials said. Six of those nine monkeys died of unknown causes and their bodies were found by veterinarian staff two days after their arrival, officials said in a statement.

By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A team of security experts may seek to restore and improve a popular computer encryption system after its developers mysteriously shut it down, claiming "unfixed security issues," a leader of the effort told Reuters on Thursday. TrueCrypt, one of a number of programs that encrypt all of a userâs hard drive, had gained popularity after fugitive former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden praised it and law enforcement officials complained of their inability to crack it. The softwareâs code has been publicly available for years, but its developers have not spoken publicly and their true identities are unclear.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Major airlines want real-time tracking for commercial aircraft following the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and cost is not a concern, a senior official with the United Nations' aviation agency said on Monday. The mystery surrounding MH370, which vanished en route to China, has sparked a global drive for a system that would enable controllers to pinpoint the exact route and last location of an aircraft. A nearly three-month-long international search has so far failed to find any trace of the Malaysian plane.

One of Chicago's newest lakefront attractions is a simple plywood billboard - 11 feet by 15 feet - offering an unadorned message in lower-case lettering: "you are beautiful. " It sits at ground level on Chicago Park District land on the west side of South Lake Shore Drive at the Oakwood Boulevard exit. As I drove up the other day, a group of young women were trading off posing in front of the sign and snapping photos of the others. And as I drove off, a man and woman were just getting out of their car and walking toward the sign.

Paige Mistak drives a Pontiac minivan. Or at least she used to. The van has been sitting in her Geneva garage for more than a year. So you can imagine her surprise when she started getting toll violation notices last summer from states along the Eastern Seaboard. New York. New Jersey. Connecticut. Massachusetts. Some of the notices included a picture of the offending vehicle. Mistak doesn't dispute the attached Illinois license plate matches her license plate number.

Joel Embiid, Aaron Gordon, Jabari Parker, Julius Randle and Andrew Wiggins will hear their names called early on June 26. The lesser-known but equally prized Dante Exum - an 18-year-old, 6-foot-6 combo guard from Australia - will fit somewhere among them. Exum is accustomed to playing point guard but can also play off the ball. His speed, handle, fluidity and 6-91/2 wingspan activate the salivary glands of NBA scouts. But because of the late underclassman declaration date, not many have been able to see him. Surrounded by two dozen reporters Thursday at the NBA draft combine at Quest Multisport in Chicago, the biggest mystery in the 2014 NBA draft opened up. "A lot of the guys here have the advantage of that one year of college, and it was hard for me to give that up," said Exum, who turns 19 in July.

Strand Releasing has acquired U.S. rights to later-life romantic comedy " The Mystery of Happiness ," a Disney release in Argentina and the latest laffer from one of the best-known voices of the new Argentine cinema, Daniel Burman . HBO has acquired U.S. pay TV rights FilmSharks Intl. is selling pic at Cannes. Disney released "Mystery" Jan. 16 and grossed $3 million. That reps the biggest Argentine BO take ever for Burman. In first international licensing, "Mystery" has sold to Festival Films for Spain and Portugal; Colombia's biggest distributor and exhibitor Cine Colombia; MultiCines for Ecuador; and Medyavision for Turkey.

ABC has announced its new schedule for the 2014-2015 season , and with it, released the first trailers for its upcoming fall series. Below, see the promos and summaries for ABC's lineup, which includes Shonda Rhimes' latest drama "How to Get Away with Murder," starring Viola Davis; "Captain America" spinoff "Marvel's Agent Carter"; mystery thriller "Secrets and Lies" starring Ryan Phillippe and Juliette Lewis; and Anthony Anderson comedy "Black-ish."...